Launching an MVP and Getting Your First Sale in a Weekend
How fast can I actually get a paid product live?
Fast enough that payments shouldn't be the reason you delay shipping. Copy a prompt from the PingBusiness template library into Claude or Cursor, and the checkout, API calls, and webhook handling are wired up in one pass - no payments experience required.
A realistic weekend timeline:
- Friday night: build the core product
- Saturday: create your PingBusiness account, submit the merchant application, and start identity verification
- Sunday: copy a checkout prompt into your AI assistant, connect it to your app, and go live in test mode
- Monday: flip to real mode once your application is approved, and take your first real payment
The point isn't skipping the merchant review - it's not losing days to hand-building a payments integration while your application is being reviewed in parallel.